Performance Hints For Adobe Lightroom 4

I noticed recently that Adobe added some Performance hints to their Lightroom Help. In past Lightroom posts I’ve gotten many comments that indicate people have problems with Lightroom performance. Here is a summary of the hint subjects, see the Adobe article for details:

Restart Lightroom

Make sure you are using the latest version of LR

2 GB RAM is a minimum

SSD Drives are a big help

Move your catalog

Check Photos’s RAM setting

High-resolution displays

Spot removal tool, local corrections and History panel

Order of develop operations

Avoid corrections you don’t need

Zoom options

Increase Camera RAW cache

Use Process version 2010

Update your video driver

My personal experience with Lightroom is that 8 GB of RAM is a better minimum than 2 GB. Ever since I configured my desktop and laptop machines with 16GB of RAM and a SSD drive ALL performance issues with Lightroom and Aperture just go away. As far as I’m concerned, I’ll never own another computer that doesn’t have 16GB of RAM and a SSD drive. I can’t even stand to use my old MacBook Pro that just has 8GB of RAM and a mechanical hardrive.

Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with Nikon DSLR equipment. I do unpaid TFP and paid work.